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  • Welcome
  • Lab News
  • Team
    • Gerry Wright
    • The Lab
  • Research
    • An Overview
    • Antimicrobial Discovery
    • Antibiotic Resistance
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Coniontins, lipopetaibiotics active against Candida auris identified from a microbial natural product fractionation library →

Authors: Chen, X., Koteva, K., Chou, S., Guitor, A., Pallant, D., Lee, Y., Sychantha, D., French, S., Hackenberger, D., Robbins, N., Cook, M.A., Brown, E.D., MacNeil, L.T., Cowen, L.E., & Wright, G.D.
Reference: Nature Communications
DOI:  10.1038/s41467-025-62630-z
PMID: 40781075

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tags: 2025, Feature
Monday 09.08.25
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Identification and characterization of the siderochelin biosynthetic gene cluster via coculture →

Authors: Schaenzer, A. J., Wang, W., Hackenberger, D., Wright, G.D.
Reference: ASM mBio.
DOI:  10.1128/mbio.01871-24
PMID: 39189743

tags: 2024
Wednesday 06.11.25
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The Janus Effect: The Biochemical Logic of Antibiotic Resistance →

Authors: Wright, G.D.
Reference: Published as part of Biochemistry special issue “A Tribute to Christopher T. Walsh”
DOI:  10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00585
PMID: 39772429
PMID:40140562

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tags: 2025, Feature
Thursday 05.08.25
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CARPDM: cost-effective antibiotic resistome profiling of metagenomic samples using targeted enrichment →

Authors: Hackenberger, D., Imtiaz, H., Raphenya, A.R., Alcock, B.P., Poinar, H.N., Wright, G.D., McArthur, A.G.
Reference: ASM Applied and Environmental Microbiology
DOI:  10.1128/aem.01876-24
PMID: 40019273
PMID:40140562

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tags: 2025
Thursday 05.08.25
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A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome →

Authors: Jangra, M., Travin, D.Y., Aleksandrova, E.V., Kaur, M., Darwish, L., Koteva, K., Klepacki, D., Wang, W., Tiffany, M., Sokaribo, A., Coombes, B.K., Vázquez-Laslop, N., Polikanov, Y.S., Mankin A.S., & Wright, G.D.
Reference: Nature
DOI:  10.1038/s41586-025-08723-7
PMID: 40140562

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tags: 2025, manoj, Feature
Friday 04.25.25
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Revisiting the potential of natural products in antimycobacterial therapy: advances in drug discovery and semisynthetic solutions →

Authors: George, M., & Wright, G.D.
Reference: Current Opinion in Microbiology
DOI:  10.1016/j.mib.2024.102576
PMID: 39742555

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tags: 2024
Monday 01.06.25
Posted by Wright Lab
 

CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database →

Authors: Brian P Alcock, William Huynh, Romeo Chalil, Keaton W Smith, Amogelang R Raphenya, Mateusz A Wlodarski, Arman Edalatmand, Aaron Petkau, Sohaib A Syed, Kara K Tsang, Sheridan J C Baker, Mugdha Dave, Madeline C McCarthy, Karyn M Mukiri, Jalees A Nasir, Bahar Golbon, Hamna Imtiaz, Xingjian Jiang, Komal Kaur, Megan Kwong, Zi Cheng Liang, Keyu C Niu, Prabakar Shan, Jasmine Y J Yang, Kristen L Gray, Gemma R Hoad, Baofeng Jia, Timsy Bhando, Lindsey A Carfrae, Maya A Farha, Shawn French, Rodion Gordzevich, Kenneth Rachwalski, Megan M Tu, Emily Bordeleau, Damion Dooley, Emma Griffiths, Haley L Zubyk, Eric D Brown, Finlay Maguire, Robert G Beiko, William W L Hsiao, Fiona S L Brinkman, Gary Van Domselaar, Andrew G McArthur.
Reference: Nucleic Acids Research
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac920
PMID: 36263822

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tags: 2023, CARD
Wednesday 12.11.24
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Minimal Impact on the Resistome of Children in Botswana After Azithromycin Treatment for Acute Severe Diarrheal Disease →

Authors: Guitor A.K, Katyukhina A, Mokomane M, Lechiile K, Goldfarb D.M, Wright G.D, McArthur A.G, Pernica J.M.
Reference: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DOI:  10.1093/infdis/jiae049
PMID: 39052715

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tags: 2024
Tuesday 08.06.24
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Antibiotic resistance: A key microbial survival mechanism that threatens public health →

Authors: Abbas A*, Barkhouse A*, Hackenberger D, Wright G.D.
Reference: Cell Host & Microbe 
DOI:  10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.015
PMID: 38870900

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tags: 2024, Amna Abbas, Alex Barkhouse, AMR
Wednesday 07.10.24
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Targeting bacterial nickel transport with aspergillomarasmine A suppresses virulence-associated Ni-dependent enzymes →

Authors: Sychantha D, Chen X, Koteva K, Prehna G, Wright G.D.
Reference: Nature Communications 
DOI:  10.1038/s41467-024-48232-1
PMID: 38740750

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tags: 2024, AMA, Dave Sychantha
Monday 06.10.24
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Lessons from assembling a microbial natural product and pre-fractionated extract library in an academic laboratory →

Authors: Cook M.A, Pallant D, Ejim L, Sutherland A.D, Wang X, Johnson J.W, McCusker S, Chen X, George A, Chou S, Koteva K, Wang W, Hobson C, Hackenberger D, Waglechner N, Ejim O, Campbell T, Medina R, MacNeil L.T, Wright G.D.
Reference:  Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
DOI:  10.1093/jimb/kuad042
PMID: 38052426

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tags: 2023
Monday 06.10.24
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Synthetic Biology Facilitates Semisynthetic Development of Type V Glycopeptide Antibiotics Targeting Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus →

Authors: Kalinka Koteva, Min Xu, Wenliang Wang, Aline A. Fiebig-Comyn, Michael A. Cook,  Brian K. Coombes, and Gerard D. Wright
Reference:  The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
DOI:  10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00633
PMID: 37315221

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tags: 2023, Feature
Monday 06.10.24
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Mechanistic plasticity in ApmA enables aminoglycoside promiscuity for resistance →

Authors: Bordeleau E, Stogios PJ, Evdokimova E, Koteva K, Savchenko A, Wright GD.
Reference: Nature Chemical Biology
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01483-3
PMID: 37973888

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tags: 2023
Monday 06.10.24
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Angucyclinones rescue PhLOPSA antibiotic activity by inhibiting Cfr-dependent antibiotic resistance →

Authors: Schaenzer AJ, Hernandez AR, Tsai K, Hobson C, Fujimori DG, Wright GD.
Reference: ASM mBio.
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01791-23
PMID: 38014974

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tags: 2023, Adam Schaenzer
Friday 03.08.24
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

Capturing the antibiotic resistome of preterm infants reveals new benefits of probiotic supplementation. →

Authors: Guitor AK, Yousuf EI, Raphenya AR, Hutton EK, Morrison KM, McArthur AG, Wright GD, Stearns JC.
Reference: Microbiome.
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01327-7.
PMID: PMC9414150

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tags: 2022, Allison Guitor, Antibiotic Resistome
Friday 08.26.22
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

The past, present, and future of antibiotics →

Authors: Cook MA, Wright GD.
Reference: Sci Transl Med.
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo7793.
PMID: 35947678

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tags: 2022, Michael Cook
Monday 08.22.22
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

HelR is a helicase-like protein that protects RNA polymerase from rifamycin antibiotics →

Authors: Surette MD, Waglechner N, Koteva K, Wright GD.
Reference: Mol Cell.
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.06.019.
PMID: 35907401

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tags: 2022, Nicholas Waglechner, Matthew Surette, Kalinka Koteva, Resistance Mechanisms, Feature
Saturday 07.30.22
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

Phylogeny-Informed Synthetic Biology Reveals Unprecedented Structural Novelty in Type V Glycopeptide Antibiotics →

Authors: Min Xu, Wenliang Wang, Nicholas Waglechner, Elizabeth J. Culp, Allison K. Guitor, and Gerard D. Wright.
Reference: ACS Central Science
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c01389.
PMID:

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tags: 2022, Min Xu, Wenliang Wang, Nicholas Waglechner, Beth Culp, Allison Guitor
Wednesday 04.27.22
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

Structural and molecular rationale for the diversification of resistance mediated by the Antibiotic_NAT family →

Authors: Stogios PJ, Bordeleau E, Xu Z, Skarina T, Evdokimova E, Chou S, Diorio-Toth L, D'Souza AW, Patel S, Dantas G, Wright GD, Savchenko A.
Reference: Commun Biol.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03219-w.
PMID: 35338238.

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tags: Resistance Mechanisms, 2022, Emily Bordeleau, Sommer Chou
Friday 03.25.22
Posted by Gerry Wright
 

ClpP inhibitors are produced by a widespread family of bacterial gene clusters →

Authors: Culp EJ, Sychantha D, Hobson C, Pawlowski AC, Prehna G, Wright GD.
Reference: Nat Microbiol.
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01073-4.
PMID: 35246663.

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tags: 2022, Feature, Beth Culp, Dave Sychantha, Christian Hobson, Andrew Pawlowski
Friday 03.04.22
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